Have you noticed that you can apply the crop command even if your selection is not a rectangular. It can be any shape. Photoshop will detect the most extreme pixels of your selection in each direction and will crop the image accordingly.
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Great tip!
Do you know the differences between using the crop command and trim?
I imagine each has a particular place when it would be more useful.
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In case anyone's interested, I've just tried this on The GIMP - worked exactly the same; and on Paint.NET - cropped the area selected, to the curved line.
Trim is for when you have transparent pixels in your document that you want to get rid of - no selection needed. Crop is ifor when I have a selection I click crop to make my document width and height reflect my selection's size and crop out the rest.
I used to use a program called Micrografx Picture Publisher on Windows. It was a pretty powerful app in it's day... on par with older versions of Photoshop like 4 or maybe 5, I'd say. Anyway, this was always a function in that program... when I moved over to Photoshop I found that it too could do this. Pretty useful, and it was second nature to me by that time, lol.